BBC - Future - The quest to make a crystal harder than diamonds

Labs across the world have been competing to build “superhard” materials – and they are finally succeeding.

Diamonds are forged at enormously high temperatures deep beneath the Earth's crust, only to be released by volcanic activity (Credit: Getty Images)

At the centre of our planet, the weight of billions of tonnes of rock pushing down from above creates crushing forces that are more than three million times the atmospheric pressure here on the surface. Yet on an unassuming laboratory worktop in northern Bavaria, physicist Natalia Dubrovinskaia is able to exceed even these formidable pressures several times over, with a device she can hold in the palm of her hands.

To read the rest of Richard Gray's story, follow the link.  http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160818-the-quest-to-make-a-crystal-harder-than-diamonds

 

 

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